Camille Gutt and postwar international finance / by Jean F. Crombois.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crombois, Jean-Francois.

Series:

Financial history (London, England) ; no. 18.

Financial history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance ministers--Belgium--Biography.

Finance, Public--Belgium.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As a businessman, financier, diplomat, minister and the first managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Camille Gutt (1884-1971) was involved in all the important financial negotiations that took place between the 1920s and the 1950s. Crombois uses Gutt's personal archives to examine the rise and fall of financial diplomacy as a largely private enterprise. He looks at how financial diplomacy and official diplomacy differed, and confronts the confusion between private and public interests, the high level of informality in the financial sector and the growth of postwar self-identification with national interests.

Contents:

Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Introduction; 1. Camille Gutt, Finance and Politics; 2. Belgian War Financial Diplomacy; 3. Financial Diplomacy in London during the Second World War; 4. Extending the Benelux Agreements; 5. The Birth of a Monetary System; 6. Camille Gutt, First Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; Conclusion; Glossary of Names; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Include bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-317-32364-5

1-315-65596-9

1-317-32365-3

1-283-14024-1

9786613140241

1-84893-059-3

OCLC:

735623482